2. Corporate Responsibility
  3. Our impact
  4. Climate change

Climate change

At RTL Group, we feel it’s important to combine our business success with responsible action towards environmental protection. We aim for the prudent use of natural resources in all our operations, looking to minimise any adverse environmental impact, over and above complying with regulations.

As a service provider and a broadcaster, we are not a major polluter, but nevertheless, we want to minimise our CO2 emissions to the largest extent possible. Energy consumption is responsible for the largest proportion of our greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, since 2008, RTL Group has measured and published its carbon footprint every two years, and annually since 2015. We analyse collected data in depth, with the help of the Bertelsmann be green team.

After successfully achieving a prior emissions reduction target and further progress the Group announced at the beginning of 2020 that it will become carbon neutral by 2030.

RTL Group discloses its carbon footprint information, which has followed the GRI international reporting standard. You can find the results of the 2020 assessment below.

RTL Group strives to conserve natural resources and to minimise its impact on the environment and the earth’s climate. Here you can see some of the things we’ve been doing with regards to environmental protection:

Environmental Matters Downloads

RTL Group Carbon Footprint 2020
(pdf, 0.13 Mb)

RTL Group Environmental Statement
(pdf, 0.19 Mb)

Environmental Matters News

Active for the environment

Ozon is UFA X's new funk format to campaign for environmental protection. Ozon is the name of the new interactive format from funk, available on Instagram and funk.net, that covers every aspect of environmental protection and sustainability. Read more.

Mobility Action Day

On Wednesday, 17 April 2019, RTL Deutschland's Environmental Working Group organised a Mobility Action Day for  employees. Read more.

UFA Green Team

The UFA Green Team is an open employee initiative founded in early 2014. Starting with the question of what can be done at UFA to improve the life cycle assessment, the team initially focused on the key issues of ‘mobility’ and ‘resources’. Read more.

Science meets YouTube

On Earth Overshoot Day, WWF Germany and Mesh Collective, the education initiative run by the UFA label UFA X, will be teaming up with YouTubers, scientists and young environmental activists to launch the #EarthOvershootDay campaign about living within our planet's limits. Read more.

A day for the environment

On 10 March 2018, RTL Hungary organised a CSR day in the main hall of its headquarters. Several organisations participated in the event including WWF, Greenpeace and GreenGo. Many of them fight for environment protection and animal rights. The CSR day attracted many employees who were eager to learn more about environmental awareness, how to protect the planet and save animals. Read more.

RTL Group

RTL Group is a leading entertainment company across broadcast, streaming, content and digital, with interests in 64 television channels, nine streaming services and 36 radio stations. The Group’s families of TV channels are either number one or number two in seven European countries, while RTL Group owns or has interests in radio stations in France, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg. RTL Deutschland is the Group’s largest business unit and Germany’s first cross-media champion, operating across TV, streaming, radio, digital and publishing. RTL Group's streaming services include RTL+ in Germany, Videoland in the Netherlands and 6play and Salto in France. Fremantle is one of the world’s largest creators, producers and distributors of scripted and unscripted content, responsible for around 12,000 hours of programming per year, alongside an international network of teams operating in more than 25 countries. The streaming tech company Bedrock and the ad-tech company Smartclip are also owned by RTL Group. As a market leader, RTL Group strives to foster alliances and partnerships within the European media industry, for example by building one-stop advertising sales houses in Germany and the Netherlands with Ad Alliance and driving international advertising sales with RTL AdConnect. Bertelsmann is the majority shareholder of RTL Group, which is listed on the Luxembourg and Frankfurt stock exchanges and in the MDAX stock index.

Quick links

RTL Group
Find jobs at RTL Group
All policies

 

Follow us on

twitter    facebook    linkedin    youtube    instagram

Back to top Back to top

© RTL Group 2021        Help        Terms of use        Contact us